December 9, 2022 • 32 mins
Rachel Bonnetta and company are back for a brand new episode of Benched with Bonnetta! To start, Rachel makes her Friday morning headline predictions about Baker Mayfield's Rams debut (5:37)
After the break, Rachel tells you which Week 14 games she's most excited about including Jets-Bills (11:32), Vikings-Lions (14:24), Eagles-Giants (17:32), and Buccaneers-49ers (20:17). Rachel wraps the show up with a Mohan's Minute (23:37) and the best and worst things she saw over the last week (26:46).
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty
dangerous or on a Cincinnati. It's my corpett. They are
what we thought they were, and we got about Hello,
you play to win the day. They want you to
cook the dinner. At least I ought to let your
shop for some of the grocery. And on the way up,
we're gonna buy a kneecap all getting me playoffs. I'm
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just here so I won't get fine. How could he
not be aromantic about football after everybody? Welcome to the
bench with Vanetta podcast, Happy to be here, Happy to
see my friend's beautiful faces again from home. Um, guys,
I was walking down my street earlier today and I
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was walking my dogs, and it was in the morning,
and I was minding my own business and I see
one of my neighbors walked down the street and I
was just like, Hi, good morning. See this person all
the time, and she just yells across the street. I
went to hear podcast and I was like, whoa. Um,
I guess I still get surprised to hear that from people.
(01:03):
It is very kind, Thanks cool, Thank you for telling
me that this morning. But you know how she knew
I've literally seen this girl around for a really long time,
like we always say hi. She's got a really cute dog. Um.
But she finally knew it was me. I think maybe
she had a sneaking suspicion, but she heard me talking
about the crazy skeleton that's on our street dressed to
Santa Claus, and she was just like, it is her,
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So she said hi this morning. So shout outs to UM.
I think her name is Laura and oh, her dog's
name is Blue. UM, So shout out to any listeners
of the pod, please always come say hi or shout
at me across the street. I absolutely love it. Um.
It totally made my day. And you know about what
grape or what you have your hand up? This isn't class.
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How's how are your teeth doing today? I knew you
were gonna ask me that because I brought sickman this
laying out before we started recording. Why don't you just
take it out? Was the list that obvious that quickly? Yeah?
I didn't want to say mildly. I mean, it's not
like super bad, it's just certain words. You guys are
you guys are nice for saying something we should have
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just stop me right away, like halfway through the first
like hello, I was like, oh crap, I was thinking
about it, Okay, crying out. No, let's not start over. Listen,
I'm a real person. I'm fixing my teeth. I've got
him BUSI line and he's just gonna hop on this sponsor.
I don't care. Listen, I'm a real person around do
podcast in my office right now. Viva la Viva la
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la invisi line and it brings me back to it's nostalgia. Okay.
When we started this podcast, I had in Visi line.
I was lisping my way through because I thought I
had to wear it at all times. Uh, and it
was absolutely awful to listen to us. What I'm sorry.
But anyways, welcome to the Bench with Banetta Podcast. Happy
to be here, guys. Today is a day. Today is
a day to be alive. Listen. I'm gonna I'm gonna
break the fourth wall here for a second. We record
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these podcasts on Thursday afternoons. Okay, so we never really
we always kind of pretend to like WHOA that Pursday
and football. It was crazy because our podcast go out
on Friday morning. But here's the thing, and here's our conundrum,
and mine right now is I really want to talk
about this Thursday night football game. So I was trying
to come up with ways that we can do it
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because obviously, hold on, hold on, hold on, let's rewind.
On Monday, Baker Mayfield asked to be bye bye from
the Carolina Panthers. Okay, and when we recorded the podcast
on Monday with Kyle Brand, we had no idea where
he was going. So much has changed since then. But
let's listen to what Kyle Rand had to say on Monday.
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The sneaky one that you mentioned is the Rams, who
are like the zombie Rams right now. I don't even
recognize them. I don't think they're interested in having Baker
Mayfield come in and lead their team, but I do
think they're interested in extending their middle finger to the
forty niners. In a sort of sun So art of war.
Here they be like, we don't want Baker Mayfield, but
we don't want you to have them, dummy. And if
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you have some any idea that you're gonna go on
a playoff run with the number one overall pick, we're
just gonna take him and stash him and then dump
him in the off season. That would be really shrewd.
And that's the one that, like, the only thing I
want more the Rams the Ram like anti sign. Okay,
so obviously the things, the things happened, things moved, things shaped.
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This week, Kyle was right, Um, and I'd like to
take back what I said, because way back when I said,
I don't even I can't see Baker in a Rams Jersey,
like just being in l A. He's rough and tumble,
he's like, you know, a little bit gritty. Los Angeles
is like the city of lights and Da da Da
da Dad. But the more that I think about it,
and the more that I think about the pairing of
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him and somebody like Sean McVeigh, who's like young fun,
can like hang with the dude, can like really just
like I feel like he can jell with somebody like
Baker who is like notably had a lot of issues
on seemingly every team that he goes on. Um, I'm
starting to really really love this. So let's listen to
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what Sean McVey had to say about Baker Mayfield this week.
I would say, I've I've always really liked him, Garrett.
I think you know what, I what I can say
in all sincerity is that there's an excitement about being
able to work with him for what we know is
five more weeks and um, whether he plays in five
games or four games is is to be determined. But
I'm excited about that, and I think as we continue
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to accumulate that information, that kind of will answer itself. Okay,
so back to what I was saying. We've got Thursday
night football tonight, We've got Rams versus the Raiders, so
I know we can't talk about it really, but this
is what I want to do. I want to make
a fun prediction. I want to ask you guys, what
do you think the headlines on Friday morning will be
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when this podcast comes out. Basically we're just saying, you
know who won last night. So this is what I think.
I think the headlines on Friday morning is going to
be woke up feeling dangerous. So I'll go to Hollywood Baker.
He starts, he plays, he wins the game. What do
you guys think about that? I love that so much. Yes,
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I don't see how he could join the team and
then two days later run in effective offense, but maybe
he will because he has such a genius head coach.
So my headline is Baker cooks the Raiders. Who I
am liking this narrative? Mohan, what's yours? Okay? The headline
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Friday will be LA is home to three Cleveland legends, Mohan, Mohan,
Lebron and Baker Manfield. I and I was the trend center.
I was the first one to come to l A
from Cleveland, and the other two followed me. And Baker
is gonna be. Um. There's a good chance that we
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look like absolute dummies, be because Baker didn't even play
on this Thursday night football game. But I'm willing to
take that risk because we could also be right and
look like genius, says Steve Weish just tweeted about twenty
six minutes ago, Baker Mayfield just stepped onto the field
at so Far to warm up. We don't know if
he's starting, We don't know if he's even gonna play.
I can totally see him playing. Um, and oh, I'm
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gonna be just like watching. I just want this so bad.
I just want that I'm like back in love with Baker.
I feel like it's just all these feelings and just
come rushing back. This week I was like pretty out
on him. There's just too much drama with the Browns
and then he went to the Panthers and it was
all like a mess, but like now he's got a
fresh start. Um, we've got Sean McVeigh the leader at
the helm of this thing, and I think that it
could happen so in Um, while we're making these predictions,
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I thought we would skip ahead to Monday as well,
and you guys tell me either of these headlines, because
I think that these are some other things that we
could see coming up. Newmero Una the headline in the
New York Post, And I tried to make these like
cheesy because there's always like whoever is writing the New
York Post headlines like do you think that they deserve
a razor? Are they absolutely awful? And it's just like
Choogi choogie as hell? Um number one, out with the old,
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in with the new. The Bucks go down. The forty
Niners take down the Bucks with a backup QB. Jimmy
g is sadly out. Uh, you got pretty coming in
and I believe that he was. Tom Brady's been playing
football for longer than Pretty's been alive. He takes him down.
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I know that the Bucks have this like epic. I
don't know if you guys saw this on Monday Night football.
It was fully stupid. This come back at the end
of the game. Everyone's gonna be excited and say Tom Brader.
It was Tom Brader. But they put themselves in that
position and they got lucky at the end. Okay, that's
what I'm thinking. Um, I think the forty Niners beat
the Bucks. What say you? Do you like that headline?
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Are you buying that newspaper? I'm buying it off. I'm
buying it off the newsstand. You're right, brock Party twenty
two years old, Tom Brady is in his twenty third season.
That's insane. Um, I think. I mean, we're gonna get
to the game picks, so I'll save my official pick
for when we get there. But do you like the headline? Okay,
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I'm gonna go through these next two real quick. We're
not making game picks until later. You guys have to
stay tuned for that. Number two, No kneecap is safe.
The Lions are just hot right now and they're gonna
stay hot. And number three another headline that we will
see come Monday morning after week the fourth for whatever,
We thank you. They are who we in parentheses didn't
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think they are Bengals another win? Guys, are the Bengals
the super Bowl? Because and hot at the right time.
That's a little bit nervous about it. I'm a little
bit nervous about it. I really like the Bengals right now.
They're on five year and for this weekend a little
a f C North matchup. Mohan, you and I used
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to hate these games. We used to just watch them
between our fingers, like, oh my god, what is gonna happen?
Um Man, I hope the Bengals is ball out this week.
Joe Burrows never beaten the Browns. It's gonna be so
sweet to do it now against Mahomes and his own
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four against the Browns. Who would have? Isn't so weird? Well?
I feel like those games are always a little bit funky,
like Steelers Ravens, Browns Bengals. Like you always get up
for those games and you never you never really know
who's gonna take it. Like obviously the Bengals have been
a superior team to the Browns for a minute now,
but um, I just you never really know what's going
to happen. There was so many nights going into those games,
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and I was like, I legit, don't know. It's it's
like something like magical kind of happens when it's like
your own division games things. It's like Rams and Seattle. Um,
when was that a week ago? Like these things, magical
things happen when you hate, when you hate each other,
you know. Um, Okay, we're making some picks after the break,
gonna give you some scores, some things that we're feeling
confident about. So don't go anyway. We'll get tonight. What man,
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We have got some really fun games this weekend. Uh,
and we're gonna kick things off. Um, I'm getting closer, boys,
I'm getting closer. And thirty one Hunt and one justin
forty three and one. We're not doing too shabby on
this podcast. But here are game picks. We've got Jets
at Bills. The Bills are favored by ten, which, like,
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I don't know, this seems like a little bit crazy.
That's it's like a steep number for the way that
these teams have been playing, Like all aboard Mike White, Christmas,
come on, buy in. I am going Jets plus ten. Um,
I know last year. I think that they were there
was a skame or there was a press conference and
somebody asked, Mike White, you know, what are your thoughts on,
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like what happened last year? And he's like, what happened
last year? Um, he threw four interceptions. Yes to bills,
That's what happened last year. The bill absolutely spank Jets. Whatever.
It's a new year, it's a new Mike White. His
wife doesn't even recognize him. Um. I just feel like
this is like a fun chip on the shoulder narrative
for him, and you can just tell man, poor Zack Wilson,
like Mike White just has the entire locker room. He's
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got some of his like, uh teammates coming out and
asking him questions, cute little questions. In the postgame press conference,
everyone's like laughing at everything. Um, I think the Jets
cover Uh yeah, you got the Mike White T shirts,
which I still think is mad disrespectful, but whatever, I'm
going Jets plus ten. What are you guys liking this one?
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You know, it's crazy because the Jets one seventeen earlier
this year with Zach Wilson starting at quarterback, and now
they're ten point underdogs with a better quarterback. I see,
it's just weird. It is weird. I mean, I know
the Bills had been dealing with some injuries and they
got some defensive players back, but and now Von Miller
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as out for the year. We learned alwa, that's a
that's rough for the Bills. But this game against the
Jets was the only game Josh Allen has not thrown
a touchdown pass in this season. The Jets defense is good.
They know this opponent, Like we just talked about with
division games. I mean, sure the Bills could win, but
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by ten plus points, I don't know. I don't think so.
So you're saying Jets covered. Could the Jets possibly win?
They could? Am I hearing a little bit of Jets
fandom over here? I mean, it would be wild if
they swept the Bills. But they totally could. Why not.
They have a good defense and a better quarterback than
they had the last time they beat them. Um, oh,
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what are you liking this one? I'm going I'm going
Bills blowout. They're going to covert with miracles? No I
do I Well, the Jets lost their rookie running back, right,
so he might they might have a better quarterback, but
they don't have a run game anymore. Did not through
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for almost way through for almost four hundred yards this
week for the last game. Um so I think he's
liking to chuck it anyways. Okay, we got Vikings at Lions,
spicy Lions favored by two in this one. Um And
I was just kind of like looking at like, what
are the people saying on Twitter about this game? Josh
do them all? Famous person who likes the Vikings saying
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Lions favored by two over Vikings this week? W t
F we are the Rodney danger Fields of the NFL,
And I'm okay with it. Keep underestimating the Vikings school.
I didn't mean to make that voice. I don't know
what he's sound. I think he's a cool guy. I've
actually been around him. Repeat him. Um, but he's people
are feeling spicy about this line. But I gotta say
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Lions minus two. I love the van a favorite hop
on board. If you're not chairing for the Lions at
this point, what are you doing with your life? Talk
about believing in Christmas miracles? Also, everyone's like vinking learn
every single game is like a one score game. But yeah,
you might be right, you might be right. I remember
last year, well, it was like the opposite narrative, like
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they kept on losing, but it was by one score.
And now they're obviously on the other side of that.
They keep on winning, but it's like very close games.
It's very funny how that's changed in such a short
amount of time. But they're It's true, they're not winning
like convincingly over many teams. So I'm going Lions because
that's the team that I want to see win. And
sometimes you just gotta go with your heart. Graver, what
are you going? I'm also picking the Lions. And this
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is this the Vikings sitting at ten and two. They
currently holding two seed. There only one game back of
the Eagles, but I don't know how much we expect
the Eagles to falter down the stretch. So how important
is this game for the Vikings? Really? Like they have
the division locked up, they're making the playoffs, they're gonna
have a high seed. Meanwhile, the Lions are still two
games back of being in the playoffs right now. They
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need this game. They lost to the Vikings in Week three.
It's hard to sweep a team in the NFL. The
Lions have gotten better and healthier since that last matchup. Plus,
like you said, they're way more fun. I'm going with
the Lions too. I also just feel like they're probably
looking out there around the like locker room. I love
every single like post game video of like Dan Campbell
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just getting everyone fired up after a win. They're probably
just looking around the locker room. Like you know, obviously
they're probably thinking about playoffs, but like, who cares. We're winning.
We're winning for like the first time ever. Like that's
let's keep doing that. That feels good. Mom, What do
you like in this game? Don't kill us here, don't
We'll put you in jails. Let's go no jail for
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Mohan today. Um. I love that. I love that the
Lions are happy. I love that my friends Cynthia Freeland
is happy for the first time. Okay, Cynthia Freeland absolute
genius UH analysts at NFL Network. If you don't follow her,
what are you doing with your life? She's my partner
in crime. On Sunday's we do like a lock of
the week at the end of each show on Sunday
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and where we always have our pregame meetings on Saturday
and at the end of each call, they're like, Okay,
who do you guys want to lock? And I really
wanted to lock the Lions last week, but me being
the great friend I am, I had to make sure
because Cynthia never picks the lines like it's just like
not in her blood and not in her DNA. And
this week she locked the Lions and they want I
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want good things from my friends, so Viva la Lions. Okay,
in the next game. I feel like I might change
my mind on this quite a few times. We got
Eagles favored by seven against the Giants. Um s Koan
Barkley was just added to the injury report this weekendink
he's got something going on with his neck. But the
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Eagles just seemed there was There's just been some weird
games where you know, obviously they started undefeated and then
there was some hiccups. I feel like they're getting back
on track. They're having fun. We saw Jason Kelsey show
up to the game in that outfit is past week.
He is quickly becoming I think he's gonna win. And
at the end of this season, I want to do
not not like m v P Awards, but like m
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VPS for our pods, like people that we've loved talking
about the most, and just the people that we've enjoyed.
Jason Kelsey is going to be at the top of
this list because he is my favorite player in the
NFL right now. Um So I'm gonna go Eagles. I'm
gonna go Eagles to cover the seven. I think that
they're gonna They're not like you were just saying, Graver,
I don't think that the Eagles are gonna really falter
down the stretch. I think they need to start like
tightening their bootstraps before the playoffs. But um, I don't know.
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I could see this one being a little bit wonky,
and I feel like I might change my mind a
couple of times, Graverer, what are you going with? I
am also taking the Eagles minus seven, and I'm with
you on changing your mind too, because I had the
Giants plus seven like thirty minutes ago, and I sat
there and thought about it, and I just think the
Eagles are gonna be too dominant on both sides of
the line of scrimmage, offensive line, defensive line. I know
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Cavon Thibodeaus and playing well for that Giants defensive front,
but there's no offensive line as good the Eagles and
the depth on their defensive line that's really where the
games are won. And then you add on the se
Kwon Barkley questionable status. We have to pick the game now.
We're not picking the game Sunday morning when we know
everything right, So right now, I'm gonna right yeah, listeners, MO,
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what do you like in this morning? I'm going to
Eagles as well. Uh, not to throw some shade at
Justin here, but A J. Brown literally made the Titans
fire their GM after beating them last week, and Justin
Hurts did it himself. They didn't have a running game,
so I don't know. Hopefully, Um, the Giants gym is
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gonna be okay, He's just the GM killer Gravers just
thinking about pressing the jail button. Um, I'm looking at
the Giants like scores the last few weeks, and like
back in October, they were so hot and they were
so fun, and then end of October, beginning of November
kind of like after they're by it looks like things
started getting a little wonky. They lost to the Lines,
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and they lost the Cowboys twenty and then they just
tied the Commanders. Um, so I feel like we were
all so hot on the Giants at the beginning of
the season, like we were picking them to win every
single game. But um, I don't know, I just feel
like they haven't been as trustworthy as usual, uh the
last few weeks. Okay, and then finally we've got a
really interesting one on our hands and we're gonna talk
a lot about it. Um coming up in best thing
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that I heard, because there was some fun soundbites that
came out about Brock Party this week. But um box
at forty niners. Forty Niners still favored, which I think
is also interesting after the Monday night football game with
Tom Brady come back by three and a half, Um,
I am going forty niners to win comfortably with this one.
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Like I said, I think at the you know, we're
all we're all back on the Brady bandwagon after he
just like was an insane person and won this game
with three minutes and five seconds left or whatever it was.
It's so funny. I had this game on and I
was kind of like, you know, walking back. It was
very low scoring, nothing was really happening. I think the
Bucks had like three points for the majority of the game.
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And then I sat down to where I was like, Okay,
last few minutes watch I want to watch the postgame
press conferences, whatever, postgame interviews on the field. Um. And
then Brady had an insane comeback, and I was just like,
what are the odds that I just sat down for
this moment. It's like I had the Brady Spidy senses
were just like a tingling in my body. Um. But
I think that you know that team, they have a
lot of running back issues. I think they have a
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lot of issues on offense. So I'm gonna go forty
Niners and Black Purty to shine, baby Graver. What do
you like see? I think this line is where it
is because the forty Niners quarterback play hasn't been what
carries down this year. They have so many playmakers. It's
such a good defense. Watching the Bucks play offense for
the first fifty five minutes of that Monday night game
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was like fighting was what's a bad thing, I don't know,
clawing nails on a chalkboard or something. It was just
it was so hard to watch them try to play
offense for fifty five minutes and then for five minutes
they were like a machine. But against this Niners defense.
I don't see that machine coming out. I think the
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Niners are gonna make Brady look old. And I like
your headline. Back to my headline, what was it? Out
with the old, in with the new. So give me
the Niners to cover. Yeah, I'm going I'm going the
Niners too. I'm going to the Niners too. And I
know everyone's giving Brady love and everything from Monday, but
I think it's just as much the Saints blowing it
(22:31):
than Brady actually doing it. And I think the Niners
are they They made too, who was the hottest quarterback
in the league, look not great on Sunday, and now
they're going against old Brady, who might have some you know,
false confidence, beating the Saints who aren't great. So I'm
going to the Niners. We had all the same picks
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except for Mohan picking Buffalo. Everything else we were in
complete alignment. That seems Yeah, I don't. I didn't feel
like making moves this weekend. Next weekend, I'll be back
to my uh every every other week. I also love
the DEVO said the forty Niners defense had to a
throwing gimmes out there. They're super fun to watch um. Okay,
coming up after the break, we got Mohun's minute. He's
(23:16):
coming out of jail, Baby, he's broken free. He's talking
about something weird and the best thing I saw and
heard all week. That'll go anyway, okay, baby, the moment
(23:44):
you've all been waiting for Mohun's minute. Mo, what do
you got for us today? I'm I'm gonna get roasted,
but I'm just gonna say it. I don't enjoy any
holiday candies. I think. I think canny corn, candy canes,
peeps like, they're all horrible candies. And then why, like,
(24:06):
why can't holidays have better candy? Like, no one, no
one's like I can't wait to go home and have
a candy cane. This is not a horrible take. Honestly,
I'm kind of like you, and I'm being quiet because
I'm trying to rack my brain to think of if
there is a holiday candy that I love, so I
like down, Yeah, I'm fine with candy corn, like I
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think a lot of people have issues with it. Candy
canes absolutely awful. They're like worst lollipop. Now there are
like sweet and flavored candy canes that are like not
your traditional red and white that are okay. I enjoyed
as a child, but as a currently as a thirty
year old, I don't eat any kind of candy cane anymore. Yeah.
(24:47):
Do you guys remember candy canes that were like orange
crush and purple crt like the soda flavored candy canes
I could do, Like the mini ones are fine. Yeah.
Now I will say, after eating a big candy cane
for ten minutes, what am I doing? Oh? Thank you?
There are Christmas candies that are okay, peppermint bark, chocolate
peppermint bark, like the gear. I don't think it's candy.
(25:11):
That doesn't or just it's candy, it's chocolate. It's just
not holiday. Or the idea of like hanging chocolates on
the Christmas tree like my grandma used to do this.
You'd like tie the candies to the Christmas tree and
they were like your standard candies, but we ate them
because they were on the tree because it was Christmas.
So that's kind of a weird gray area. Um. I
(25:32):
will say, there is absolutely nothing worse than a peep
like whoever created those jail immediately, I wish that we
could have I wish that we could send. Hey, bench
Vanetta would love to meet you, the creator of peeps,
and we just bring them on to do that to
put anti. They have no idea what's going on? Okay,
let me I feel like they get Oh they're nasty.
(25:55):
Who was buying those except for like a grandma's who
are blind? Um? Let me ask you guys this, are
you into Christmas cocktails? Because I know this is gonna
sound discussing and I am anti nog Okay, we I
don't think we've talked about this on this but I
talked about my dad and you were like, oh, thanks
for your parents. Sorry, Mr Graver. But I will say,
(26:19):
like a white Russian with peppermint schnaps and then you
crush up a candy cane and you put it on
the rim of the glass like a margaritea salt. Guys,
you're laughing. You are partying in the streets, baby, and
you're probably gonna have a stomach later because you drank milk.
But who cares? Who? Yeah, I'm into that. I'm peppermint snaps.
(26:40):
Maybe we'll have some of our Christmas party, a rogue
Christmas party. Um, okay, guys, time for the best thing
that I heard all week, and this is basically all
about Brock Purty said. I asked Brock Purty what his
thoughts are that he'll make his first start against Tom Brady,
and he said, it's gonna be pretty cool. He's been
playing football longer than I've been alive. In fact, Party
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was born four days before Brady played his final game
at Michigan. This is a little bit spicy. I don't
know if he meant to make it spicy, but I
think it might be a little bit spicy. I'm sure
he was just saying, like, how cool is this thin?
It's to play against Tom Brady, But like, also the
backhanded compliment is, h he's old as hell and I'm
playing his dusty ass this week. Um, I absolutely love it.
(27:23):
And then our own bridget uh content, She tweeted out
something about Trent Williams. Let me take a look at this.
You would think he's been in the league fifteen years,
is what Trent Williams said about Brock Party. If you're talking,
he'll say, shut your ass up. He ain't no timid
rookie feeling this his way around. He will get on
your ass. You would think he's like Peyton Manning or something.
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I absolutely love this, like blind confidence. I don't know
how human beings have it, but it's always very fascinating
to me. So I really hope that he wins this game.
And then the worst thing that I saw guys, oh
he like, oh b J has kind of been the
leader of our worst things lately. But he recently tweeted this,
which is like what chess pawn situation, Play chess, play
(28:10):
chess with all of us. Um, So I wanted to
kind of do a quick little rehash of like what
is going on with O b J. So he went
to Dallas this week. Okay, we all kind of thought
that that was going to be the landing spot, but
hold on, hold on, hold on. We saw him with
Michael Parsons and and Trayvon Digs at the going to
the MAVs game, and everyone was chanting fun, fun, fun,
(28:31):
Oh my god, Jerry Jones is like popping champagne basically
before O b J even got there. But then oh
b J got his physical done and things then started
to kind of take a turn. Then Jones said afterwards,
he says, I'm not confident at all. That's the issue
we've got a good beat on that. We've got a
great read on his career. It has to be addressed
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and that's when you see if you can make a
deal or not. So I don't know what's gonna happen
anymore than he tweets this because he's on the way
to the Giants. I think he's spending Thursday and Friday
with the Giants and then maybe this weekend with the Bills.
But then Ken Dorsey, who works for the Bills, he
recently came out and said, we're pretty happy with our guys, Like,
anytime we can add another piece on offense that could
help us win the Super Bowl, we're not going to
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not look at it. But we're pretty happy with our guys.
So I legitimately don't know where he's gonna go. And
I think that O. B J is starting to get
a little bit nervous, and that's why he's tweeting about
the pawn thing, playing chess or he's saying like I'm
a piece. I'm your chess piece, use me somebody, No No.
I think, as the resident chess expert on the podcast
(29:34):
Chess Master Never Forget, I think he's like, I'm playing
chess and everyone's playing checkers, Like I'm gonna be okay,
but this kind of makes me feel like, you know,
when you're like dating somebody new and like maybe you're
worried that they're not that into you. Like you're posting
that THIRSDT trap. You are hitting them. You are popping
the booty for the Graham. You want them to see
what you've got. You want your You're like doing some
(29:54):
stories out and about like, oh I don't need you.
I'm like, I'm having drinks of this other plays with
these other people, putting out the vibes. Okay, I think
that that's what ob J is doing. If I had
to guess right now, I'd say Giants are the move.
I think they lose Cowboys anymore. I think the Cowboys,
like they just put up fifty points on the Colts
last week. They don't need o b J. They got
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enough stuff going on the Bills. Same deal. The Bills
are rolling. I mean, we'll see how they do against
the Jets, but the Bills don't need another receiver. They
have enough weapons on offense. The Giants have been struggling
to find a go to receiver all season long. They're
probably gonna lose to Philly. They're gonna be trying to
make this last playoff push. Why not bring back the
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one of the best receivers you've ever drafted and see
if you can make it happen. And I think O
J is all salty that the Cowboys leaked the information
about his knee too, for sure. I mean maybe he's
just like and And also if I were O b J,
see he's had some weird weeks, man, I would probably
I was feeling like pretty confident going into the Cowboys.
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Jerry was probably here, boys, here a couple of basketball tickets.
Why don't you guys go and enjoy the game court side.
He probably had like the equal meetings with like Dac
and Zeke and um, it's probably pretty exciting to be there,
to be honest, And then all of a sudden, it's like, whoa,
you're not hot on me anymore? Like I thought, just
like a week ago, you were like the ink was
ready to go. The ink was like, you know, fired
up in then, and let's sign this baby. And didn't
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they say even if he does come back, he won't
play until January. And in that case, like you'd have
to go deep in the playoffs. I think that wasn't
Mica Parsons that came out and said that he was
going to be ready to go in like five weeks.
Like O b J told Mike that he was getta
be ready to go in five weeks. So I don't know. Yeah,
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But anyways, welcome to the Bench with Banetta Podcast. Happy
to be here, guys. Today is a day. Today is
a day to be alive. Listen. I'm gonna I'm gonna
break the fourth wall here for a second. We record
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these podcasts on Thursday afternoons. Okay, so we never really
we always kind of pretend to like WHOA that Pursday
and football. It was crazy because our podcast go out
on Friday morning. But here's the thing, and here's our conundrum,
and mine right now is I really want to talk
about this Thursday night football game. So I was trying
to come up with ways that we can do it
(03:16):
because obviously, hold on, hold on, hold on, let's rewind.
On Monday, Baker Mayfield asked to be bye bye from
the Carolina Panthers. Okay, and when we recorded the podcast
on Monday with Kyle Brand, we had no idea where
he was going. So much has changed since then. But
let's listen to what Kyle Rand had to say on Monday.
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The sneaky one that you mentioned is the Rams, who
are like the zombie Rams right now. I don't even
recognize them. I don't think they're interested in having Baker
Mayfield come in and lead their team, but I do
think they're interested in extending their middle finger to the
forty niners. In a sort of sun So art of war.
Here they be like, we don't want Baker Mayfield, but
we don't want you to have them, dummy. And if
(04:00):
you have some any idea that you're gonna go on
a playoff run with the number one overall pick, we're
just gonna take him and stash him and then dump
him in the off season. That would be really shrewd.
And that's the one that, like, the only thing I
want more the Rams the Ram like anti sign. Okay,
so obviously the things, the things happened, things moved, things shaped.
(04:20):
This week, Kyle was right, Um, and I'd like to
take back what I said, because way back when I said,
I don't even I can't see Baker in a Rams Jersey,
like just being in l A. He's rough and tumble,
he's like, you know, a little bit gritty. Los Angeles
is like the city of lights and Da da Da
da Dad. But the more that I think about it,
and the more that I think about the pairing of
(04:42):
him and somebody like Sean McVeigh, who's like young fun,
can like hang with the dude, can like really just
like I feel like he can jell with somebody like
Baker who is like notably had a lot of issues
on seemingly every team that he goes on. Um, I'm
starting to really really love this. So let's listen to
(05:02):
what Sean McVey had to say about Baker Mayfield this week.
I would say, I've I've always really liked him, Garrett.
I think you know what, I what I can say
in all sincerity is that there's an excitement about being
able to work with him for what we know is
five more weeks and um, whether he plays in five
games or four games is is to be determined. But
I'm excited about that, and I think as we continue
(05:23):
to accumulate that information, that kind of will answer itself. Okay,
so back to what I was saying. We've got Thursday
night football tonight, We've got Rams versus the Raiders, so
I know we can't talk about it really, but this
is what I want to do. I want to make
a fun prediction. I want to ask you guys, what
do you think the headlines on Friday morning will be
(05:46):
when this podcast comes out. Basically we're just saying, you
know who won last night. So this is what I think.
I think the headlines on Friday morning is going to
be woke up feeling dangerous. So I'll go to Hollywood Baker.
He starts, he plays, he wins the game. What do
you guys think about that? I love that so much. Yes,
(06:10):
I don't see how he could join the team and
then two days later run in effective offense, but maybe
he will because he has such a genius head coach.
So my headline is Baker cooks the Raiders. Who I
am liking this narrative? Mohan, what's yours? Okay? The headline
(06:33):
Friday will be LA is home to three Cleveland legends, Mohan, Mohan,
Lebron and Baker Manfield. I and I was the trend center.
I was the first one to come to l A
from Cleveland, and the other two followed me. And Baker
is gonna be. Um. There's a good chance that we
(06:58):
look like absolute dummies, be because Baker didn't even play
on this Thursday night football game. But I'm willing to
take that risk because we could also be right and
look like genius, says Steve Weish just tweeted about twenty
six minutes ago, Baker Mayfield just stepped onto the field
at so Far to warm up. We don't know if
he's starting, We don't know if he's even gonna play.
I can totally see him playing. Um, and oh, I'm
(07:20):
gonna be just like watching. I just want this so bad.
I just want that I'm like back in love with Baker.
I feel like it's just all these feelings and just
come rushing back. This week I was like pretty out
on him. There's just too much drama with the Browns
and then he went to the Panthers and it was
all like a mess, but like now he's got a
fresh start. Um, we've got Sean McVeigh the leader at
the helm of this thing, and I think that it
could happen so in Um, while we're making these predictions,
(07:44):
I thought we would skip ahead to Monday as well,
and you guys tell me either of these headlines, because
I think that these are some other things that we
could see coming up. Newmero Una the headline in the
New York Post, And I tried to make these like
cheesy because there's always like whoever is writing the New
York Post headlines like do you think that they deserve
a razor? Are they absolutely awful? And it's just like
Choogi choogie as hell? Um number one, out with the old,
(08:08):
in with the new. The Bucks go down. The forty
Niners take down the Bucks with a backup QB. Jimmy
g is sadly out. Uh, you got pretty coming in
and I believe that he was. Tom Brady's been playing
football for longer than Pretty's been alive. He takes him down.
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I know that the Bucks have this like epic. I
don't know if you guys saw this on Monday Night football.
It was fully stupid. This come back at the end
of the game. Everyone's gonna be excited and say Tom Brader.
It was Tom Brader. But they put themselves in that
position and they got lucky at the end. Okay, that's
what I'm thinking. Um, I think the forty Niners beat
the Bucks. What say you? Do you like that headline?
(08:52):
Are you buying that newspaper? I'm buying it off. I'm
buying it off the newsstand. You're right, brock Party twenty
two years old, Tom Brady is in his twenty third season.
That's insane. Um, I think. I mean, we're gonna get
to the game picks, so I'll save my official pick
for when we get there. But do you like the headline? Okay,
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I'm gonna go through these next two real quick. We're
not making game picks until later. You guys have to
stay tuned for that. Number two, No kneecap is safe.
The Lions are just hot right now and they're gonna
stay hot. And number three another headline that we will
see come Monday morning after week the fourth for whatever,
We thank you. They are who we in parentheses didn't
(09:37):
think they are Bengals another win? Guys, are the Bengals
the super Bowl? Because and hot at the right time.
That's a little bit nervous about it. I'm a little
bit nervous about it. I really like the Bengals right now.
They're on five year and for this weekend a little
a f C North matchup. Mohan, you and I used
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to hate these games. We used to just watch them
between our fingers, like, oh my god, what is gonna happen?
Um Man, I hope the Bengals is ball out this week.
Joe Burrows never beaten the Browns. It's gonna be so
sweet to do it now against Mahomes and his own
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four against the Browns. Who would have? Isn't so weird? Well?
I feel like those games are always a little bit funky,
like Steelers Ravens, Browns Bengals. Like you always get up
for those games and you never you never really know
who's gonna take it. Like obviously the Bengals have been
a superior team to the Browns for a minute now,
but um, I just you never really know what's going
to happen. There was so many nights going into those games,
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and I was like, I legit, don't know. It's it's
like something like magical kind of happens when it's like
your own division games things. It's like Rams and Seattle. Um,
when was that a week ago? Like these things, magical
things happen when you hate, when you hate each other,
you know. Um, Okay, we're making some picks after the break,
gonna give you some scores, some things that we're feeling
confident about. So don't go anyway. We'll get tonight. What man,
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We have got some really fun games this weekend. Uh,
and we're gonna kick things off. Um, I'm getting closer, boys,
I'm getting closer. And thirty one Hunt and one justin
forty three and one. We're not doing too shabby on
this podcast. But here are game picks. We've got Jets
at Bills. The Bills are favored by ten, which, like,
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I don't know, this seems like a little bit crazy.
That's it's like a steep number for the way that
these teams have been playing, Like all aboard Mike White, Christmas,
come on, buy in. I am going Jets plus ten. Um,
I know last year. I think that they were there
was a skame or there was a press conference and
somebody asked, Mike White, you know, what are your thoughts on,
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like what happened last year? And he's like, what happened
last year? Um, he threw four interceptions. Yes to bills,
That's what happened last year. The bill absolutely spank Jets. Whatever.
It's a new year, it's a new Mike White. His
wife doesn't even recognize him. Um. I just feel like
this is like a fun chip on the shoulder narrative
for him, and you can just tell man, poor Zack Wilson,
like Mike White just has the entire locker room. He's
(12:27):
got some of his like, uh teammates coming out and
asking him questions, cute little questions. In the postgame press conference,
everyone's like laughing at everything. Um, I think the Jets
cover Uh yeah, you got the Mike White T shirts,
which I still think is mad disrespectful, but whatever, I'm
going Jets plus ten. What are you guys liking this one?
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You know, it's crazy because the Jets one seventeen earlier
this year with Zach Wilson starting at quarterback, and now
they're ten point underdogs with a better quarterback. I see,
it's just weird. It is weird. I mean, I know
the Bills had been dealing with some injuries and they
got some defensive players back, but and now Von Miller
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as out for the year. We learned alwa, that's a
that's rough for the Bills. But this game against the
Jets was the only game Josh Allen has not thrown
a touchdown pass in this season. The Jets defense is good.
They know this opponent, Like we just talked about with
division games. I mean, sure the Bills could win, but
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by ten plus points, I don't know. I don't think so.
So you're saying Jets covered. Could the Jets possibly win?
They could? Am I hearing a little bit of Jets
fandom over here? I mean, it would be wild if
they swept the Bills. But they totally could. Why not.
They have a good defense and a better quarterback than
they had the last time they beat them. Um, oh,
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what are you liking this one? I'm going I'm going
Bills blowout. They're going to covert with miracles? No I
do I Well, the Jets lost their rookie running back, right,
so he might they might have a better quarterback, but
they don't have a run game anymore. Did not through
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for almost way through for almost four hundred yards this
week for the last game. Um so I think he's
liking to chuck it anyways. Okay, we got Vikings at Lions,
spicy Lions favored by two in this one. Um And
I was just kind of like looking at like, what
are the people saying on Twitter about this game? Josh
do them all? Famous person who likes the Vikings saying
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Lions favored by two over Vikings this week? W t
F we are the Rodney danger Fields of the NFL,
And I'm okay with it. Keep underestimating the Vikings school.
I didn't mean to make that voice. I don't know
what he's sound. I think he's a cool guy. I've
actually been around him. Repeat him. Um, but he's people
are feeling spicy about this line. But I gotta say
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Lions minus two. I love the van a favorite hop
on board. If you're not chairing for the Lions at
this point, what are you doing with your life? Talk
about believing in Christmas miracles? Also, everyone's like vinking learn
every single game is like a one score game. But yeah,
you might be right, you might be right. I remember
last year, well, it was like the opposite narrative, like
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they kept on losing, but it was by one score.
And now they're obviously on the other side of that.
They keep on winning, but it's like very close games.
It's very funny how that's changed in such a short
amount of time. But they're It's true, they're not winning
like convincingly over many teams. So I'm going Lions because
that's the team that I want to see win. And
sometimes you just gotta go with your heart. Graver, what
are you going? I'm also picking the Lions. And this
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is this the Vikings sitting at ten and two. They
currently holding two seed. There only one game back of
the Eagles, but I don't know how much we expect
the Eagles to falter down the stretch. So how important
is this game for the Vikings? Really? Like they have
the division locked up, they're making the playoffs, they're gonna
have a high seed. Meanwhile, the Lions are still two
games back of being in the playoffs right now. They
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need this game. They lost to the Vikings in Week three.
It's hard to sweep a team in the NFL. The
Lions have gotten better and healthier since that last matchup. Plus,
like you said, they're way more fun. I'm going with
the Lions too. I also just feel like they're probably
looking out there around the like locker room. I love
every single like post game video of like Dan Campbell
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just getting everyone fired up after a win. They're probably
just looking around the locker room. Like you know, obviously
they're probably thinking about playoffs, but like, who cares. We're winning.
We're winning for like the first time ever. Like that's
let's keep doing that. That feels good. Mom, What do
you like in this game? Don't kill us here, don't
We'll put you in jails. Let's go no jail for
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Mohan today. Um. I love that. I love that the
Lions are happy. I love that my friends Cynthia Freeland
is happy for the first time. Okay, Cynthia Freeland absolute
genius UH analysts at NFL Network. If you don't follow her,
what are you doing with your life? She's my partner
in crime. On Sunday's we do like a lock of
the week at the end of each show on Sunday
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and where we always have our pregame meetings on Saturday
and at the end of each call, they're like, Okay,
who do you guys want to lock? And I really
wanted to lock the Lions last week, but me being
the great friend I am, I had to make sure
because Cynthia never picks the lines like it's just like
not in her blood and not in her DNA. And
this week she locked the Lions and they want I
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want good things from my friends, so Viva la Lions. Okay,
in the next game. I feel like I might change
my mind on this quite a few times. We got
Eagles favored by seven against the Giants. Um s Koan
Barkley was just added to the injury report this weekendink
he's got something going on with his neck. But the
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Eagles just seemed there was There's just been some weird
games where you know, obviously they started undefeated and then
there was some hiccups. I feel like they're getting back
on track. They're having fun. We saw Jason Kelsey show
up to the game in that outfit is past week.
He is quickly becoming I think he's gonna win. And
at the end of this season, I want to do
not not like m v P Awards, but like m
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VPS for our pods, like people that we've loved talking
about the most, and just the people that we've enjoyed.
Jason Kelsey is going to be at the top of
this list because he is my favorite player in the
NFL right now. Um So I'm gonna go Eagles. I'm
gonna go Eagles to cover the seven. I think that
they're gonna They're not like you were just saying, Graver,
I don't think that the Eagles are gonna really falter
down the stretch. I think they need to start like
tightening their bootstraps before the playoffs. But um, I don't know.
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I could see this one being a little bit wonky,
and I feel like I might change my mind a
couple of times, Graverer, what are you going with? I
am also taking the Eagles minus seven, and I'm with
you on changing your mind too, because I had the
Giants plus seven like thirty minutes ago, and I sat
there and thought about it, and I just think the
Eagles are gonna be too dominant on both sides of
the line of scrimmage, offensive line, defensive line. I know
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Cavon Thibodeaus and playing well for that Giants defensive front,
but there's no offensive line as good the Eagles and
the depth on their defensive line that's really where the
games are won. And then you add on the se
Kwon Barkley questionable status. We have to pick the game now.
We're not picking the game Sunday morning when we know
everything right, So right now, I'm gonna right yeah, listeners, MO,
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what do you like in this morning? I'm going to
Eagles as well. Uh, not to throw some shade at
Justin here, but A J. Brown literally made the Titans
fire their GM after beating them last week, and Justin
Hurts did it himself. They didn't have a running game,
so I don't know. Hopefully, Um, the Giants gym is
(19:38):
gonna be okay, He's just the GM killer Gravers just
thinking about pressing the jail button. Um, I'm looking at
the Giants like scores the last few weeks, and like
back in October, they were so hot and they were
so fun, and then end of October, beginning of November
kind of like after they're by it looks like things
started getting a little wonky. They lost to the Lines,
(20:01):
and they lost the Cowboys twenty and then they just
tied the Commanders. Um, so I feel like we were
all so hot on the Giants at the beginning of
the season, like we were picking them to win every
single game. But um, I don't know, I just feel
like they haven't been as trustworthy as usual, uh the
last few weeks. Okay, and then finally we've got a
really interesting one on our hands and we're gonna talk
a lot about it. Um coming up in best thing
(20:21):
that I heard, because there was some fun soundbites that
came out about Brock Party this week. But um box
at forty niners. Forty Niners still favored, which I think
is also interesting after the Monday night football game with
Tom Brady come back by three and a half, Um,
I am going forty niners to win comfortably with this one.
(20:44):
Like I said, I think at the you know, we're
all we're all back on the Brady bandwagon after he
just like was an insane person and won this game
with three minutes and five seconds left or whatever it was.
It's so funny. I had this game on and I
was kind of like, you know, walking back. It was
very low scoring, nothing was really happening. I think the
Bucks had like three points for the majority of the game.
(21:06):
And then I sat down to where I was like, Okay,
last few minutes watch I want to watch the postgame
press conferences, whatever, postgame interviews on the field. Um. And
then Brady had an insane comeback, and I was just like,
what are the odds that I just sat down for
this moment. It's like I had the Brady Spidy senses
were just like a tingling in my body. Um. But
I think that you know that team, they have a
lot of running back issues. I think they have a
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lot of issues on offense. So I'm gonna go forty
Niners and Black Purty to shine, baby Graver. What do
you like see? I think this line is where it
is because the forty Niners quarterback play hasn't been what
carries down this year. They have so many playmakers. It's
such a good defense. Watching the Bucks play offense for
the first fifty five minutes of that Monday night game
(21:48):
was like fighting was what's a bad thing, I don't know,
clawing nails on a chalkboard or something. It was just
it was so hard to watch them try to play
offense for fifty five minutes and then for five minutes
they were like a machine. But against this Niners defense.
I don't see that machine coming out. I think the
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Niners are gonna make Brady look old. And I like
your headline. Back to my headline, what was it? Out
with the old, in with the new. So give me
the Niners to cover. Yeah, I'm going I'm going the
Niners too. I'm going to the Niners too. And I
know everyone's giving Brady love and everything from Monday, but
I think it's just as much the Saints blowing it
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than Brady actually doing it. And I think the Niners
are they They made too, who was the hottest quarterback
in the league, look not great on Sunday, and now
they're going against old Brady, who might have some you know,
false confidence, beating the Saints who aren't great. So I'm
going to the Niners. We had all the same picks
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except for Mohan picking Buffalo. Everything else we were in
complete alignment. That seems Yeah, I don't. I didn't feel
like making moves this weekend. Next weekend, I'll be back
to my uh every every other week. I also love
the DEVO said the forty Niners defense had to a
throwing gimmes out there. They're super fun to watch um. Okay,
coming up after the break, we got Mohun's minute. He's
(23:16):
coming out of jail, Baby, he's broken free. He's talking
about something weird and the best thing I saw and
heard all week. That'll go anyway, okay, baby, the moment
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you've all been waiting for Mohun's minute. Mo, what do
you got for us today? I'm I'm gonna get roasted,
but I'm just gonna say it. I don't enjoy any
holiday candies. I think. I think canny corn, candy canes,
peeps like, they're all horrible candies. And then why, like,
(24:06):
why can't holidays have better candy? Like, no one, no
one's like I can't wait to go home and have
a candy cane. This is not a horrible take. Honestly,
I'm kind of like you, and I'm being quiet because
I'm trying to rack my brain to think of if
there is a holiday candy that I love, so I
like down, Yeah, I'm fine with candy corn, like I
(24:26):
think a lot of people have issues with it. Candy
canes absolutely awful. They're like worst lollipop. Now there are
like sweet and flavored candy canes that are like not
your traditional red and white that are okay. I enjoyed
as a child, but as a currently as a thirty
year old, I don't eat any kind of candy cane anymore. Yeah.
(24:47):
Do you guys remember candy canes that were like orange
crush and purple crt like the soda flavored candy canes
I could do, Like the mini ones are fine. Yeah.
Now I will say, after eating a big candy cane
for ten minutes, what am I doing? Oh? Thank you?
There are Christmas candies that are okay, peppermint bark, chocolate
peppermint bark, like the gear. I don't think it's candy.
(25:11):
That doesn't or just it's candy, it's chocolate. It's just
not holiday. Or the idea of like hanging chocolates on
the Christmas tree like my grandma used to do this.
You'd like tie the candies to the Christmas tree and
they were like your standard candies, but we ate them
because they were on the tree because it was Christmas.
So that's kind of a weird gray area. Um. I
(25:32):
will say, there is absolutely nothing worse than a peep
like whoever created those jail immediately, I wish that we
could have I wish that we could send. Hey, bench
Vanetta would love to meet you, the creator of peeps,
and we just bring them on to do that to
put anti. They have no idea what's going on? Okay,
let me I feel like they get Oh they're nasty.
(25:55):
Who was buying those except for like a grandma's who
are blind? Um? Let me ask you guys this, are
you into Christmas cocktails? Because I know this is gonna
sound discussing and I am anti nog Okay, we I
don't think we've talked about this on this but I
talked about my dad and you were like, oh, thanks
for your parents. Sorry, Mr Graver. But I will say,
(26:19):
like a white Russian with peppermint schnaps and then you
crush up a candy cane and you put it on
the rim of the glass like a margaritea salt. Guys,
you're laughing. You are partying in the streets, baby, and
you're probably gonna have a stomach later because you drank milk.
But who cares? Who? Yeah, I'm into that. I'm peppermint snaps.
(26:40):
Maybe we'll have some of our Christmas party, a rogue
Christmas party. Um, okay, guys, time for the best thing
that I heard all week, and this is basically all
about Brock Purty said. I asked Brock Purty what his
thoughts are that he'll make his first start against Tom Brady,
and he said, it's gonna be pretty cool. He's been
playing football longer than I've been alive. In fact, Party
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was born four days before Brady played his final game
at Michigan. This is a little bit spicy. I don't
know if he meant to make it spicy, but I
think it might be a little bit spicy. I'm sure
he was just saying, like, how cool is this thin?
It's to play against Tom Brady, But like, also the
backhanded compliment is, h he's old as hell and I'm
playing his dusty ass this week. Um, I absolutely love it.
(27:23):
And then our own bridget uh content, She tweeted out
something about Trent Williams. Let me take a look at this.
You would think he's been in the league fifteen years,
is what Trent Williams said about Brock Party. If you're talking,
he'll say, shut your ass up. He ain't no timid
rookie feeling this his way around. He will get on
your ass. You would think he's like Peyton Manning or something.
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I absolutely love this, like blind confidence. I don't know
how human beings have it, but it's always very fascinating
to me. So I really hope that he wins this game.
And then the worst thing that I saw guys, oh
he like, oh b J has kind of been the
leader of our worst things lately. But he recently tweeted this,
which is like what chess pawn situation, Play chess, play
(28:10):
chess with all of us. Um, So I wanted to
kind of do a quick little rehash of like what
is going on with O b J. So he went
to Dallas this week. Okay, we all kind of thought
that that was going to be the landing spot, but
hold on, hold on, hold on. We saw him with
Michael Parsons and and Trayvon Digs at the going to
the MAVs game, and everyone was chanting fun, fun, fun,
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Oh my god, Jerry Jones is like popping champagne basically
before O b J even got there. But then oh
b J got his physical done and things then started
to kind of take a turn. Then Jones said afterwards,
he says, I'm not confident at all. That's the issue
we've got a good beat on that. We've got a
great read on his career. It has to be addressed
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and that's when you see if you can make a
deal or not. So I don't know what's gonna happen
anymore than he tweets this because he's on the way
to the Giants. I think he's spending Thursday and Friday
with the Giants and then maybe this weekend with the Bills.
But then Ken Dorsey, who works for the Bills, he
recently came out and said, we're pretty happy with our guys, Like,
anytime we can add another piece on offense that could
help us win the Super Bowl, we're not going to
(29:13):
not look at it. But we're pretty happy with our guys.
So I legitimately don't know where he's gonna go. And
I think that O. B J is starting to get
a little bit nervous, and that's why he's tweeting about
the pawn thing, playing chess or he's saying like I'm
a piece. I'm your chess piece, use me somebody, No No.
I think, as the resident chess expert on the podcast
(29:34):
Chess Master Never Forget, I think he's like, I'm playing
chess and everyone's playing checkers, Like I'm gonna be okay,
but this kind of makes me feel like, you know,
when you're like dating somebody new and like maybe you're
worried that they're not that into you. Like you're posting
that THIRSDT trap. You are hitting them. You are popping
the booty for the Graham. You want them to see
what you've got. You want your You're like doing some
(29:54):
stories out and about like, oh I don't need you.
I'm like, I'm having drinks of this other plays with
these other people, putting out the vibes. Okay, I think
that that's what ob J is doing. If I had
to guess right now, I'd say Giants are the move.
I think they lose Cowboys anymore. I think the Cowboys,
like they just put up fifty points on the Colts
last week. They don't need o b J. They got
(30:16):
enough stuff going on the Bills. Same deal. The Bills
are rolling. I mean, we'll see how they do against
the Jets, but the Bills don't need another receiver. They
have enough weapons on offense. The Giants have been struggling
to find a go to receiver all season long. They're
probably gonna lose to Philly. They're gonna be trying to
make this last playoff push. Why not bring back the
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one of the best receivers you've ever drafted and see
if you can make it happen. And I think O
J is all salty that the Cowboys leaked the information
about his knee too, for sure. I mean maybe he's
just like and And also if I were O b J,
see he's had some weird weeks, man, I would probably
I was feeling like pretty confident going into the Cowboys.
(30:59):
Jerry was probably here, boys, here a couple of basketball tickets.
Why don't you guys go and enjoy the game court side.
He probably had like the equal meetings with like Dac
and Zeke and um, it's probably pretty exciting to be there,
to be honest, And then all of a sudden, it's like, whoa,
you're not hot on me anymore? Like I thought, just
like a week ago, you were like the ink was
ready to go. The ink was like, you know, fired
up in then, and let's sign this baby. And didn't
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they say even if he does come back, he won't
play until January. And in that case, like you'd have
to go deep in the playoffs. I think that wasn't
Mica Parsons that came out and said that he was
going to be ready to go in like five weeks.
Like O b J told Mike that he was getta
be ready to go in five weeks. So I don't know. Yeah,
(31:43):
this is a big mystery. We're going to figure it out. Um, guys,
that is the show. That is it. That is all. Um.
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